The Bible in Shakespeare /
Despite the widespread popular sense that the Bible and the works of Shakespeare are the two great pillars of English culture, and despite the long-standing critical recognition that the Bible was a major source of Shakespeare's allusions and references, there has never been a full-length, crit...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Shakespeare's allusive practice and its cultural and historical background. Reformation biblical culture
- A critical history of the Bible in Shakespeare
- Allusion: theory, history, and Shakespeare's practice
- Biblical allusion in the plays. Shakespeare's variations on themes from Genesis 1-3
- Creative anachronism: biblical allusion in the Roman histories
- Damnable iteration: Falstaff, master of biblical allusion
- The great doom's image: Macbeth and Apocalypse
- The patience of Lear: King Lear and Job.
